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As the climate suppose to be ok this weekend in England what are you planning to do in the plot and/or undercover? 
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I have been offered another compost bin which now means I can replace the ramshakle wooden structure I inherited. I think it will take a couple of days to get the area cleared and organised. Luckily the compost is usable so I can spread it over the plot and use it to replenish raised beds at home. I just need to pick out all of the bits of bindweed that come with it
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We are starting a fairly large landscape project, so this weekend we are:
Removing the bricks, woodchip and weed fabric in allotment
Putting the bricks and woodchip into polytunnel
Building the 2nd raised bed and paths in polytunnel
Moving the scrap wood and debris to end of garden (ready for a skip)
I haven't told Mr OWG this yet, though I have it written in a nice project plan
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I have got a few bits to get done this weekend:
Clean the greenhouse thats just been put up with ***** Fluid
Remove Weed proof fabric from all beds and weed/turnover
Cover up with fleece/cardboard the planned beds for carrots and parsnips that are goin in in the next few weeks to get the soil temperature up
Paint/Creosote the compost bin and beds (where possible westher wise)
Get some stuff going in the greenhouse
Plant/pot on some stuff in the proporgatorsComment
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Mulch! Going to see if my work recycling bins have any large bits of cardboard in and see if I can smuggle it away without looking like a total looney. Then going to hopefully mulch the curcurbit and brassica beds since there will be a delay before they can be grown in. Or may sow green manure if the ground isn't quite as horrifically dry as it was last weekend. I really wish the tap was on - there's only so much water I can lug to the plot.
I may also visit the local stables and start a second horse poo dalek. I keep them separate in case of aminopyrallid, but they are a handy source of future mulch material as there's only so many grass clippings I can nab.Proud member of the Nutters Club.
Life goal: become Barbara Good.
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If I had a choice I'd go to Wales for a break.Comment
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Potato planting on Friday. More peas to put out and more to be sown. Maybe ordering a new polytunnel!Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein
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I've got Friday and Saturday on the allotment and there will be potato planting, I can assure you! Other than that... just lots of digging to do. Lots.Comment
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Oh yeah - on Sunday I'm taking a friend away for her 30th birthday... Nothing too fancy, but I'm looking forward to a night in Scarborough with her and my daughter
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Can't we have a long weekend in Wales, Scotland and Ireland?Comment
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Cant we have a long weekend in France ? (Answer - No...well not as long as UK - we dont get Good Friday)
But as I dont work - will probably do some bed preparation - OH will dig - I'll rake etc.Comment
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Friday I'll be baking for the Lottie Easter fair on Sat , and weather permitting Sunday we'll make a start on the fruit cage..... OH is working Fridayand Monday so Monday hopefully I'll spend it at the lottie ....S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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If the weather's ok I'll dig a pond. Or some of one, if my back gives up before I'm finished.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard KiplingComment
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We did one of these last pagan festival. Every day except one [my jim jam day] was spent in the garden sorting it out. But now we are reaping the rewards as hardly any maintenance/hard landscaping/weeding to do.Originally posted by OverWyreGrower View PostWe are starting a fairly large landscape project, so this weekend we are:
Removing the bricks, woodchip and weed fabric in allotment
Putting the bricks and woodchip into polytunnel
Building the 2nd raised bed and paths in polytunnel
Moving the scrap wood and debris to end of garden (ready for a skip)
I haven't told Mr OWG this yet, though I have it written in a nice project plan
I've decided to make the long weekend last 10 days. Huzzah. So lots of potting on and planting out for me then.
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or if it snows I may build a snowman
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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